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Health Insurance 101

Health insurance premiums keep rising but what do those premiums pay for and how does private health insurance actually work? Larry Mantle and president Christopher C. Ohman of California Association of Health Plans and vice president Joel Miller of National Coalition of Health Care Operations talk about the nuts and bolts of private health insurance and how private insurance companies make a profit from the business of providing health care for millions of Americans.